”Karela and Ashia, as well as both Princesses, accompanied me when the seamstress came for me. Each of them made suggestions about my new clothing. ...I was surprised that the ladies weren’t wondering about their own clothing. When I asked about it, they reminded me that the princesses brought clothing with them. Karela and Kaimoa were close enough to the same size that Karela could wear one of her dresses. They would have to alter another of Kaimoa’s dresses so it was long enough for Ashia’s tall. As a child I was quite the littledaredevil, but felt quite certain that I never made the hop between mytwo realities until just recently. I could only guess that when I wasfirst hit in the head with the bean ball that something changed, andthat's when it all really started.When I was young, there was obviously a connection of some sort, butjust that, a connection. The accident on the baseball diamondapparently re-opened that connection, but did more and made it a fullblown gateway.Whatever it. " I nodded."One weekend I took the train to Sydney with some blokes. We went to hear Rudd speak and I met Craig Ardler." Aha!" I got my degree and was working in Bourke up to a while back, but end of last year I heard from Craig. He talked about the report about Aborigines and about what a phoney Abbott is. He told me he'd met you at some event and that you'd been to the Land Council. He told me a bit more about you, but most important, he said he'd been in touch with a band in Queensland and. Chrys grabbed her own hair with both hands. "He told you about his mother?! Every time anyone even talks about parents, he leaves the room! He never talks about his childhood, he's tight-lipped as a clam! Fucking holy sh- Callie," Chrys knelt down by Lauren's cushion, looking pleadingly into her eyes, "Callie, please join us. We rarely initiate people past child-bearing years, but you're clearly very gifted, you can do so much good here!" What? What could I be good for? I'm an old woman with a.